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...surface, the answer seems simple: think of the lives that might have been saved if the attack on Pearl could have been averted. But against that certainty, those with the decisive force at their command must weigh the force of the unknown. It is entirely possible that World War II might have been still bloodier had the U.S. not been drawn into the fight by the Japanese assault. To this dilemma The Final Countdown makes a sensible, existentialist response. It is also fully aware of the ironies-the sheer comic puzzlement-implicit in a confrontation between a modern ship...
With the current shortage of everything from energy to living (and dying) space, I am surprised by the public criticism of the Veterans Administration's attempt to form a common gravesite for a number of unknown Civil War soldiers. This would certainly not be a disrespectful act. Instead, wouldn't the joining of several unidentified, outdated gravesites be a sign of respect in an attempt to conserve just one of our fast-diminishing resources-land...
...suppose some people like watching football in the summer. Even I went to an exhortation game once. It was two years ago when the Chicago Bears (I'm from Chicago) played the St. Louis Post-Dispatches in Bears' Park, otherwise known as the Field of the Unknown Soldiers in Chicago. It was about 87 degrees that night, and since they were playing under those huge spotlights, it was even hotter...
...Congo, the Niger, the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
United Air Lines President Percy Wood last month received, at his Lake Forest, Ill., home, a gift in the mail from an unknown admirer. After ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...